Rejuvenation package to revive tourism sector in Kerala
The Hindu
COVID-19 crisis has hit sector hard, says Minister while presenting Budget
Rejuvenation package, infusion of more working capital, aggressive campaign to increase footfalls during the post-pandemic period, and two tourism circuits have been announced in the 2021-2022 revised budget to revive the tourism sector battered by COVID-19. Minister of Finance K.N. Balagopal has said the two waves of COVID had badly hit the tourism sector, which is the mainstay of Kerala’s economy that provides employment to 5 lakh people directly and 20 lakh people indirectly.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











